Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
4
Input Validation, Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Pidgin MSN DirectConnect protocol implementation, by processing certain P2P messages. A remote, authenticated user could use this flaw to cause denial of service (Pidgin crash).

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Stu Tomlinson as the original reporter.

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